Word: eeoc
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...from nonwhites. Allowing the decision to stand, argued the Justice Department in its petition, "can be expected to chill voluntary affirmative-action programs throughout the country." The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission also disagrees with the Weber decision. The same day the high court decided to review the case, the EEOC announced final guidelines designed to encourage voluntary affirmative action...
...make no difference in the effort to achieve hiring and promotion goals. "My reading of the decision," she said, "is that we are not compelled to do anything differently from the way we've done things in the past, and we are not going to." Many businesses report that EEOC officials pressure them to hire additional women and members of minority groups but do not mention specific numbers. This means the companies have to estimate what numbers will satisfy the bureaucrats who administer the law. "It's like saying, 'Wrong, guess again,' " observes an industrial relations official at a company...
...while the effort to revitalize the Equal Opportunity Employment Commission (EEOC) is a commendable one, Carter's hyperbolic labeling of it as "one of the most important actions to improve civil rights in the last decade" gives reason for pause. Though he later modified this statement, it indicates a narrow view of the potential of creative civil rights legislation. Perceiving a bureaucratic adjustment of this kind as "major" leaves little room for the truly important civil rights reforms still left undone...
...Dawn Hooker, assistant professor and coordinator of physical education and dance, filed the complaint with the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination (MCAD) and the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC...
...Hope for EEOC Monitoring...